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Other than a copy of Weather Report<\/strong>‘s Heavy Weather<\/em> purchased back in the 80s, I never paid attention to jazz until the last couple of decades. And even then, my interest in (and knowledge of) the genre was pretty limited. Arguably it still is, but I know what I like. In addition to many album reviews and several liner notes projects (more on those at the bottom of this post), I’ve been fortunate to interview a few jazz composer\/performers.<\/p>\n Bayet\u00e9<\/strong> Larry Coryell<\/strong> Resonance Records’ Zev Feldman<\/strong> Les McCann<\/strong> John McLaughlin<\/strong> Jazzhaus’ Ulli Pfau<\/strong> Fred Pallem of Le Sacre du Tympan<\/strong> Concord Music Group<\/strong> There are simply too many jazz-related reviews on this blog to list them all. This link<\/a> will point you to some of the more recent ones. And I’ve curated and\/or written liner notes for a couple of Cannonball Adderley<\/strong> reissues, Black Messiah<\/em><\/a> and Big Man<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n More to come; next time I’ll look at some power pop-related interviews and writings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Other than a copy of Weather Report‘s Heavy Weather purchased back in the 80s, I never paid attention to jazz until the last couple of decades. And even then, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","category-jazz","cat-41-id","cat-42-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31747,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions\/31747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOmnivore Recordings reissues expanded versions of long-lost and\/or greatly treasured music in a wide variety of genres. One of their most interesting projects is a black power\/fusion album from Todd Cochran aka Bayet\u00e9. Cochran and I enjoyed a deep and wide-ranging conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nLarry Coryell deserves to mentioned in the same breath as John McLaughlin, but he’s less well-known. Coryell granted me an interview<\/a>, and we went into some detail.<\/p>\n
\nThe non-profit Resonnace Records works tirelessly to unearth rare and unheard jazz recordings. The label’s A&R man Zev Feldman talked with me<\/a> about their goals, with specific emphasis on ther Wes Montgomery releases.<\/p>\n
\nSoul jazz legend Les McCann will likely remain one of my all-time favorite interview subjects. Here’s my Les McCann interview\/feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nI was fortunate enough to land an in-depth conversation with the jazz and fusion guitar legend. Here’s the multi-part feature<\/a>. I was scheduled to meet him soon thereafter, but things went horribly wrong. Here’s that story<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n
\nA German-based label called Jazzhaus has rights to the tapes of the country’s national radio station and television companies, and they released a good bit of excellent quality archival material from their vaults. My interview with curator Ulli Pfau<\/a> dealt with the label’s efforts.<\/p>\n
\nWhen on a vacation in Montr\u00e9al in 2007, I stumbled across a wonderful big band called Le Sacre du Tympan. (Seemingly I was the only person in town who didn’t know ahead of time that the Montr\u00e9al Jazz Festival was happening.) A few years later I managed to contact and interview band leader Fred Pallem<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe music conglomerate that currently holds the rights to the jazz (and other genre) catalogs of Riverside, Fantasy, Prestige, Stax, Specialty and others is doing a fine job of reissuing old jazz titles. I spoke with the company’s Chris Clough<\/a> about the reissues and more.<\/p>\n